Boston, 10 March 1876.
It was a sultry afternoon.
Thomas Watson was listening intently to the tuning fork sounds coming from the closet of his boss TWO rooms APART.
Suddenly he heard his boss cry out,
“Mr Watson, Come Here. I Want You.”
He ran, in panic to his boss’s closet two rooms away. His boss had spilled the battery acid and his trousers were burnt.
He looked at the man in pain and said, “I heard your words, sir.”
“The burnt man stopped dead, looked at him, forgot the mishap, and broke into a fire dance.”
It had suddenly occurred to Mr. Graham Bell that Thomas Watson, his assistant had heard his painful cry although he was a good two rooms away. They were connected by a thin wire over which Bell had been trying to transmit sound waves for ages.
They had done the UNTHINKABLE.
For the first time in the history of mankind, their voice was carried over a WIRE BEYOND a closed WALL.
The first telephone was born.
It was March 10, 1876.
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40 years after that fateful day, on January 25, 1915, Bell made another call again to his assistant. This time he was in New York and Watson was in San Francisco.
“Mr Watson, Come Here. I Want You.” He chimed in his most mellifluous voice.
And Watson heard his voice 2500 miles apart in San Francisco.
This time Watson replied, ” But It will take me a week sir.”
Long-distance telephony was born.
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